Hamlet
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Oct 6, 2009
Closed Dec 6, 2009
3hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
Visit the Hamlet website:
http://www.hamletbroadway.com
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In Shakespeare's definitive tragedy, Hamlet, the King of Denmark is dead. Consumed with grief, Prince Hamlet, played by Jude Law, determines to avenge his father's death with devastating consequences for his family and the kingdom.
Jude Law stars in the title role.
A limited number of $35.00 tickets, subject to availability, will be made available for purchase by students at the Broadhurst Theatre box office on the day of the performance only. One ticket per valid student ID. Tickets are subject to availability and the number of student tickets for each performance may vary. Box office hours are 10am to 8:30 PM, Monday through Saturday and Noon to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
An Event - Not Just a Show
My party of 4 all LOVED this show - Jude Law was perfect - The sets and costome designs were great. It was a theater event - not just a show.
Reviewed by dougg
on Friday, Nov 20th, 2009
Astonishing performance
I just saw Hamlet the other night with two of my girlfriends. Spend the money and sit in the orchestra and be prepared to be blown away by superb acting. Peter Eyre was excellent and Jude Laws astonishing performance, ease on stage, and introspection was very well balanced. Kudos to artistic direction!
Reviewed by Navarro
on Monday, Nov 2nd, 2009
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Jude Law's portrayal of the melancholy Dane in director Michael Grandage's larger-than-life production of
Hamlet, now at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre, isn't just one of the best ever committed to the stage, it's also not your usual interpretation. In Law's hands, the grief the young man feels after the murder of his father has clearly planted in him an unquenchable anger, and that fury becomes his tragic flaw -- not his inability to take action. This Hamlet is so blindly intent on retaliation that he mistakenly catches the wrong victims in his traps, and, with heartbreaking irony, brings about his own demise.
Indeed, Law's Hamlet is hardly the brooding, vacillating and intermittently cr[...]